Andrew Brett

After 15 years as a specialist employment lawyer, Andrew Brett has experience of advising on almost every type of employment law issue, including:

• contracts and terms and conditions of employment;
• employment rights;
• discrimination (sex, race and disability);
• whistleblowing (or protected disclosure);
• working time and holiday disputes;
• salary and wage disputes;
• maternity rights;
• restrictive covenants;
• disciplinary and grievance hearings;
• termination of employment, including unfair dismissal and redundancy claims;
• ACAS negotiations and settlement agreements;
• transfers of undertakings and TUPE;
• trade union law and industrial action;
• Schools Issues.

Andrew has particular expertise in discrimination and whistleblowing cases, and has sat as a legal advisor to an NHS Trust’s Race Equality Commission.

Andrew is qualified to mediate all civil and commercial disputes and frequently mediates in workplace and employment disputes. He is a skilled advocate, and normally conducts his own advocacy at employment tribunals, which has the advantages for his clients of avoiding barristers’ costs and ensuring consistency of advice throughout a case.

Andrew also advises on human rights, pensions, local government law, data protection law, the Freedom of Information Act, special educational needs and Care Act issues.